[SR: 2837958], Paperback, [EAN: 9781870041225], Norvik Pr, Norvik Pr, Book, [PU: Norvik Pr], Norvik Pr, The only novel by the Faroese author, yet an international best-seller remaining one of the best-loved twentieth century classics in Danish and Faroese literature. ""Its twofold achievement is a remarkable evocation of the starkness of life in the Faroe Islands in the 1750s and of the vitality and sexuality of an extraordinary woman, an amoral Cleopatra within a brow-beaten community...It is to the credit of the translator that he has found a style of English through which the original can be felt."" - TLS. Beautiful, passionate, innocent, devoted, amoral, and uncomprehending of her own tragedy, Barbara is portrayed with fascinated devotion. ""[Barbara] stands as one of the most complex and interesting female characters in modern Scandinavian literature."" - Scandinavian Studies. ""Jacobsen's descriptions of the islands and the seas around them are veritable poetry. . . Highly recommended."" Booklist, 10129, Contemporary, 17, Literature & Fiction, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 10132, Literary, 17, Literature & Fiction, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books

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The only novel by the Faroese author, yet an international best-seller remaining one of the best-loved twentieth century classics in Danish and Faroese literature. ""Its twofold achievement is a remarkable evocation of the starkness of life in the Faroe Islands in the 1750s and of the vitality and sexuality of an extraordinary woman, an amoral Cleopatra within a brow-beaten community...It is to the credit of the translator that he has found a style of English through which the original can be felt."" - TLS. Beautiful, passionate, innocent, devoted, amoral, and uncomprehending of her own tragedy, Barbara is portrayed with fascinated devotion. ""[Barbara] stands as one of the most complex and interesting female characters in modern Scandinavian literature."" - Scandinavian Studies. ""Jacobsen's descriptions of the islands and the seas around them are veritable poetry. . . Highly recommended."" Booklist contemporary,literary,literature and fiction Literature & Fiction, Norvik Pr

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